PeerTube
Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
directly in the web browser with WebTorrent.
**PeerTube is sponsored by [Framasoft](https://framatube.org/#en), a non-profit
that promotes, spreads and develops free culture in general, and free-libre
software in particular. If you want to support this project, please [consider
donating to them](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/).**
Client
Server
## Demonstration
Want to see it in action?
* Demonstration servers:
* [peertube.cpy.re](http://peertube.cpy.re)
* [peertube2.cpy.re](http://peertube2.cpy.re)
* [peertube3.cpy.re](http://peertube3.cpy.re)
* [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504)
to see what the "decentralization feature" looks like
## Why
We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion,
Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone may not have
enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers.
So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as
[Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). But it's not
enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. It's the
reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to
[WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus
BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today.
## Dependencies
* nginx
* PostgreSQL
* Redis
* **NodeJS >= 8.x**
* yarn
* OpenSSL (cli)
* **FFmpeg >= 3.x**
## Run using Docker
See the [docker guide](/support/doc/docker.md)
## Production
See the [production guide](/support/doc/production.md).
## Contributing/Test
See the [contributing
guide](/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
to see how to test or contribute to PeerTube. Spoiler alert: you don't need to be a
coder to help!
## API REST documentation
For now only on Github:
* HTML version: [/support/doc/api/html/index.html](/support/doc/api/html/index.html)
* Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
## Tools
* [Import videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo...)](/support/doc/tools.md)
* [Upload videos from the CLI](/support/doc/tools.md)
## FAQ
If you have a question, please try to find the answer in the [FAQ](/FAQ.md) first.
## Architecture
See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation.
### Backend
* The backend is a REST API.
* Servers communicate with each others with [Activity
Pub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/).
* Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, query where the
torrent URI of this specific video is...).
* If a user uploads a video, the server seeds it and sends its followers some
metadata (name, short description, torrent URI...).
* A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it.
* Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (through
[WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the
video was uploaded.
Here are some simple schemes:
